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psychic ability (Wiseman, 2011). So that, there are number of
works that study the 6th sense and its relationship with some
variables, some from the physiological view, as the study cited
by Radin: The significant correlations in brain waves between
isolated identical twins, this study was reported in the journal
Science in 1965 by Duane and Behrendt (Psychology Today,
2009). Also, a new study by Rollin 2004 provides evidence that
the heart responds to future events and indicates women to be
naturally more attuned to their intuition. Intuition has often
thought of a mysterious 6th sense. Heart Math researchers
found that we can actually be aware of an event five to seven
seconds before it happens. (Powers, 2004). A new theory sug-
gests that the anterior singulate cortex (ACC) may actually
function as an early warning system that works at a subcon-
scious level to help us recognize and avoid high risk situations.
A new research from Washington University in St. Louis has
defined a brain region that clearly acts as an early warning sys-
tem and helps us adjust our behavior to avoid dangerous situa-
tions. This brain study points to this region in relation to 6th
sense (Science news blog, 2009).
6th Sense and the other five senses
Backwards from this the discovery of the sixth sense was
announced in a paper read at the world congress of medical
men in Naples in 1909, a French academy Dr. Luis at Batavia
School worked out a theory of sight through skin, as he men-
tioned: the power in the blind child is due to an unusual devel-
opment of external sensory nerves, in other words, the facial
nerves of the blind have probably become so delicate in percep-
tions as to afford these unfortunate children a sight by skin.
(New York Times, 1915).
6th Sense and Personality type
A study conducted by the Institute of Noetic Sciences in
2003, asked 465 people questions about their education, aller-
gies, bodily sensitivities, mental practices, and unusual experi-
ences. Found strong differences between men and women, con-
sistent with the results of other surveys. Also they found that
left-handed and ambidextrous people were significantly more
likely to believe in exceptional experiences than right handed
people and that younger people were significantly more likely
to believe in exceptional experiences than older ones. Then by
comparing 55 people who reported no experiences of telepathy
against 60 who frequently reported such experiences, found a
clear pattern emerging about bodily sensitivities. Finally, their
findings made able to form a profile of a person very likely to
report psychic experiences: a left-handed female who is thirty
something or younger, physically highly sensitive, suffers from
chronic anxiety, is somewhat introverted, make decisions based
on feelings than logic, practices one or more creative arts, and
engages in some forms of mental discipline like meditation, is
open unconventional claims, and is interested more in possibili-
ties than facts . (Radin, 2006).
6th sense and age
There are some experiments indicated some aspects of the
6th sense among children aged from 8 to 12 old. In fact ESP
plays an important role in the lives of many creative individu-
als. As they are spontaneous, it is important not to push a child
to produce them, instead we may: create an atmosphere of un-
derstanding and caring, give older child books on ESP, keep a
record on psychic happing, respond naturally to your child’s
ESP experiences and give them ESP tests. (Khatri & Alivin,
2009).
6th sense and mental ability
Gardener Murphy once states that, there is a relationship
between creativeness and ESP. So that he claimed, we should
take care about elementary school students as well as we do
with adolescent students. He added that we should treat our
children’s psychic abilities not as odd experiences that we
should hide. Attitude is important and comprehension is im-
portant too. Child should be able to transfer psychic abilities
into everyday living; all psychic experiences will give the child
a total picture of how to succeed. (Tanous, 2009). Sargent also
concluded—from his experiment on 25 Zener cards at the Uni-
versity of Cambridge that ESP is associated with a relaxed state
of mind and a freer, more atavistic level of altered conscious-
ness. (Wikipedia, 2010).
6th sense and the belief of psychic ability
Personality’s measures have showed that people who belief
in PSI tend to score above chance, while who not belief in it
show null results. This is become known as “sheep-goat effect”.
(Wikipedia, 2010). Wiseman with his mind machine experi-
ment showed a relationship between participants’ ESP scores
and their gender, belief in psychic ability and degree of pre-
dicted success. (Wiseman, 2011).
The methodology of studying 6th sense
Parapsychologists have carried out a large number of studies
examining the possible existence of ESP. One of the most prin-
ciple types of experimental design uses the “forced choice”
procedure, in which are asked to guess the identity of hidden
targets. Many researchers have argued that the results of these
studies support the existence of ESP. For example, Pratt et al.
(1940/1966) reviewed findings from more than 3, 6 million
guess made in over 140 forced choice, all were independently
significant. (Wiseman, 2011). There were also, free-response
measures used by Carington in the 1930s. This included relaxa-
tion, meditation, REM-sleep and Ganzfeld (a mild sensory dep-
rivation procedure). These studies have proved to be more suc-
cessful than Rheine’s forced choice paradigm, with meta-
analysis evidencing reliable effects and many confirmation
replication studies (Wikipedia, 2010).
From the related studies and the theoretical frame work-
mentioned above, we may conclude that: 1) We do not need to
examine the existence of 6th sense now, instead we need to
draw a map about it. 2) Neither of these studies used method-
ology except experimental one. 3) With this methodology,
studies examined some variables that affect 6th sense, which
are: Gender, age, education, heredity (as in twin studies), al-
lergy or bodily sensitive, belief in exceptional experiences and
mental ability.
So the important and new manipulation in the current study
is that, it is intended to draw a map of the 6th sense by trying to
answer these mainly two questions: what is one condition
through exceptional experience?—What are the circumstances
surrounding one through this experiences? To answer the first
question the author examined personal variables, while an-
swering the second question the author examined social vari-
ables. To capture and close up to the identity of this ESP we
need to know: one’s age, gender, educational/economic and
marital status, mood through hobbies, heredity, hygiene and
best sense of one’s 5 senses. (Personal). Also, we need to
know: one’s geographical region, circumstances and day time